Sentence examples for police book from inspiring English sources

Then, as has been Navalny's way and has become his team's habit, they suggested that the police book them — and, when the police admitted that they had no basis for booking, drove off.

And the fact he's still on the job gives "Blue Blood" a charge and immediacy unlike any other police book I know.

The police booked them into jail after they took mandatory H.I.V. tests.

His accent had mutated during his years abroad, and the police booked him as a "foreign terrorist".

Months later, police booked four wealthy city men, all dealers and preservationists, who had cemetery items in their homes and shops.

A few weeks since, the idea struck him that the old plan of a verbal description of a rascal's personal appearance entered on the police books, as to height, complexion, age, etc., might be greatly amended.

But as Mr. Garcia-Roza makes clear, Espinosa works in a third world environment fundamentally different from that familiar to readers of police books in the United States and Europe.

The police booked him, listing in their report that their prisoner had two aliases, was 35, stood 5-feet-8 and weighed 135 pounds.

Malcolm Fox of the ethics and standards division – hero of Rankin's two most recent police books, The Complaints and The Impossible Dead – is horrified to discover that the cop he regards as "the loosest of canons" is back on police business, and reactivates the "whole shelf" of complaints made against Rebus during his career.

Layered with Conlon's family history; allusions to St. Augustine and early police books; and his own views on departmental dysfunction, the war on drugs and urban race relations, the book becomes a kind of rich ethnographic document, steeped in what Clifford Geertz might have called "thick description" (not to mention a bible for future generations of cop show writers).

When they started writing police books, Rendell and James were forced, as their female predecessors in the genre had been, to use a male protagonist: at the time, the inclusion of a woman senior detective would have tipped the tales into science fiction.